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This is your long term solution guys . Any guy that plays short for us will be for 2013 only, so limited resources should be used. I'm not saying it wouldn't be wise to go for someone that help us in the longer term there as well, but you have to hope that Garcia is the shortstop of our future.

Motte is a very good closer. We all say him blow a few this year but when you lock down what was it? 42/48? I know it's in that area, I'm just being to lazy to look. But when you have that many attempts you'll blow a few. Plus I think they were all 1 run games he blew

But when you have someone this durable and this good you gotta lock him up through his arb years or it could burn you.

Motte has shown really good control since coming up, very consistent high speeds. I've been very happy with him

I would like to see Westbrook moved to the pen and have Kelly or Rosenthal in the rotation. I think Moz pulled the trigger too soon and resigned Westbrook before he saw the development of those two guys. He would be an expensive middle innings guy, but could also step in the rotation if/when someone goes down with injury.

I like Kelly and Miller for the rotation. I'm not sure if Rosenthal has a 3rd pitch. He was great out of the pen. Not sure how he would do multiple times through the order. I like him a lot though.

Motte has gotten a little better each year. If he continues to develop other pitches, a slight loss in velocity won't hurt him as bad. He would be real nasty if he got a nice change-up to go along with his cutter and high heat.